CurrentWarTHINK 003: Fast Landing Ship Tanks as Motherships

The Future is Found in the Past...

Fast LST Motherships

USN Surface Ship Clusterfucks No Longer Survivable without 100x Aircraft Carriers to Darken the Skies with Seaplane Airpower: Affordable Fast LSTs can Fix this

Pearl Harbor, anyone?

Large TIN CAN Amphibs are DEATHTRAPS for Thousands of Men/Women...

Huge Amphibs Easily Destroyed by SFBs

ICECRETE Mobile Offshore Base (MOB) is still a Better Idea than Easily Destroyed Land Bases

www.combatreform.org/ITSTIMETOJOINTHEMOB.htm

Seaplane Fighters

STOVL F-35B Lightly-Armed Can Operate VTOL from and STOVL from Ski Jump FLSTs as Small as 300 Feet Long

Every USN Warship Must have at Least 1x Seaplane Fighter to Hopefully Prevent Tragedies Like this....Psychopath Illuminati Scum W. Bush should be Imprisoned as the War Criminal he is

Small, Folding Wing Seaplane Fighters can Clear Paths to Shore of Seamines 

Small, Fast Boats (SFBs)


100x FLSTs each with 6x SFBs turns into 700x Missile Platform SWARMS to Overwhelm Foes by both quality & quantity

www.combatreform.org/sfbs.pdf

FLST mother ships and/or SFBs can have Escalade Boarding Ramps (EBRs) like Roman Legions used--no more vulnerable caving ladder BS! EBRs can also speed seaplane to mother ship transfers, too...

Large Seaplanes to Ferry Men/Tanks/Supplies to FLSTs

Russian and Japanese Long-Range Amphibious seaplanes (LRAs) are COTS Available

www.combatreform.org/seaplanetransports.htm

Blue Beret Troops can be delivered to Motherships Just Prior to Coming Ashore--reducing Exposure time to Enemy A2/AD Fires

New CH-53K King Stallions can Airland Deliver Vanilla M113A4 Super Gavins and M113A6 AmphiGavin light tanks

FLSTs can also deliver Super Gavins to shore or close for AmphiGavins to swim selves to shore

www.combatreform.org/amphigavins.htm